Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090016366 | Packet transfer apparatus and packet transfer method - Disclosed herewith is a packet transfer apparatus that carries out 1+1 protection switching for traffics to be received variably in both length and cycle. The apparatus enables flows to be multiplexed and the link usage efficiency to be improved without generating any buffer overflow errors. The data transfer apparatus, upon receiving the third sequentially numbered data from the first communication route before receiving the preceding second sequentially numbered data, stores the received third data in a buffer. And upon receiving the second sequentially numbered data from the second communication route, the apparatus sends the second and third data sequentially. Then, upon receiving the third sequentially numbered data from the second communication route before receiving the second sequentially numbered data, the apparatus sends the third data when a predetermined waiting time expires. | 01-15-2009 |
20090016378 | Packet transfer apparatus - A packet transfer apparatus connects two networks of different protocols. The packet transfer apparatus, connected to a first communication network and a second communication network, performs the steps of: storing first destination correspondence information; receiving a packet of the first communication protocol; based on the first destination correspondence information, determining destination information of a packet of the second communication protocol corresponding to destination information of the received packet of the first communication protocol; generating the header of the packet of the second communication protocol, based on the determined destination information of the packet of the second communication protocol; converting the received one or more packets of the first communication protocol into one or more packets of the third communication protocol; and adding the generated header of the packet of the second communication protocol to the packets of the third communication protocol. | 01-15-2009 |
20090232148 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A packet communication system of this invention includes a user access device at a user point for providing a user with connectivity to a plurality of carriers, carrier communication networks linked to the user access device, and a carrier management network which controls and manages the user access device and communication devices. A communication device receives a control frame-inserting command from the carrier management network, and sends a control frame containing therein control frame transfer information that indicates which one of termination and send-back processing is performed at a destination device. In response to receipt of the control frame, a user access device that is the destination of this frame extracts therefrom the control frame transfer information. If this information indicates the termination then perform termination; if send-back, add thereto a header necessary for the send-back and then transfer it. | 09-17-2009 |
20090303996 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE WITH A PATH PROTECTION FUNCTION, AND NETWORK SYSTEM USING THE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Provided is a network system including a start device and multiple end devices. A point-to-point (P-to-P) logical path is set to be used for unicast communication between the start device and each of the end devices. A first point-to-multipoint (P-to-M) logical path and a second P-to-M logical path are set to be used for multicast communication from the start device to the multiple end devices. The start device transmits data over the first P-to-M logical path. When one of the end devices detects a defect along the first P-to-M logical path, the end device that has detected the defect transmits a switch request over the P-to-P logical path set between this end device and the start device. The start device receives the switch request and transmits data over the second P-to-M logical path. | 12-10-2009 |
20100002591 | Communication System and Communication Apparatus - Communication time period measuring frames are simultaneously sent from an OAM adaptive device on a transmission side, to both a working path and a protection path. In an OAM adaptive device on a reception side, reception times of the frames having arrived from both the paths are checked so as to measure a time period difference between both the paths. The time period difference is fed back to a logic distance adjustment function of each PON section to determine required communication time periods of the PON sections respectively included in a working system and a protection system. Communication time periods of the working system and the protection system in a packet communication network are arbitrated in order to decrease a packet loss at line switching in a packet relaying network. | 01-07-2010 |
20100021161 | PON SYSTEM - Disclosed herewith is a PON system and a bandwidth controlling method capable of controlling congestion with use of an upstream bandwidth in a PON section efficiently when congestion occurs in a gateway (GW) connected to an OLT. An OLT connected to a plurality of ONUs through a passive optical network (PON) and to a gateway (GW) through a communication line, when receiving a congestion occurrence notice indicating a congestion occurred output number from a GW, identifies the identifier of the ONU that is using a GW output line having the congestion output port number and shifts the bandwidth controlling of the PON section in a normal mode for allocating a bandwidth to each ONU normally to that in a bandwidth suppression mode for allocating a congestion time allowable bandwidth that is less than the current bandwidth to the ONU having the identified ONU identifier and a bandwidth to each of other ONUs according to its transmission queue length. | 01-28-2010 |
20100135162 | TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - A link aggregation function and maintenance function by MPLS OAM. Identical entry information is stored in plural circuits IF which perform a LA setting. In this way, multiplexing to the same LSP is possible even with different IF. The first network IF is assumed to be OAM ACT, and the second network IF is set to OAM SBY (SBY). OAM frame insertion is performed only by an OAM ACT port. In this way, in an opposite MPLS transmission apparatus, it is possible to prevent CV frame reception above a specified number of frames. Further, a switch forwarding table is set to forward frames from the network side to the first network IF of OAM ACT. The second network IF which was set to OAM SBY does not perform fault detection by CV reception. In this way, incorrect detection of faults due to non-reception of OAM can be prevented. | 06-03-2010 |
20100220743 | BUFFER MANAGEMENT METHOD AND PACKET COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A packet communication apparatus includes a frame buffer of a linked list method and holds chain information and buffer size information, for structuring a linked list buffer for each user flow, in two areas consisting of an operation area and an update area. While usually in service, the buffer is structured by using the chain information in the operation area and the buffer size information in the same area such that the frame is read/written in the frame buffer. When the chain information in the update area and the buffer size information in the same area have been changed, a queue size is changed by reflecting the updated chain information and the updater buffer size information into the operation area, when both the read pointer and the write pointer respectively have gone around the buffer, or when there is no frame stored in the buffer. | 09-02-2010 |
20110096794 | Packet transfer apparatus - A packet transfer apparatus connects two networks of different protocols. The packet transfer apparatus, connected to a first communication network and a second communication network, performs the steps of: storing first destination correspondence information; receiving a packet of the first communication protocol; based on the first destination correspondence information, determining destination information of a packet of the second communication protocol corresponding to destination information of the received packet of the first communication protocol; generating the header of the packet of the second communication protocol, based on the determined destination information of the packet of the second communication protocol; converting the received one or more packets of the first communication protocol into one or more packets of the third communication protocol; and adding the generated header of the packet of the second communication protocol to the packets of the third communication protocol. | 04-28-2011 |
20120057605 | Bandwidth Control Method and Bandwidth Control Device - A communication device connected to a network includes an input interface that receives a frame; an output frame buffer that holds the frame received by the input interface; multiple bandwidth controllers that controls a read request notice timing of the frame received by the input interface for each flow; an output scheduler that determines a read timing of the frame on the basis of the frame read request of each flow notified by the bandwidth controllers; and an output interface that outputs the frame in the timing notified by the output scheduler, and each of the bandwidth controllers determines on the basis of a token value held by each flow, whether or not the read request of the flow is notified to the output scheduler, and determines the amount of adding or subtracting the token value on the basis of the accumulated number of frames in the output frame buffer. | 03-08-2012 |
20120070147 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - Communication arrangements wherein each of ONUs of a first or second PON transmits data toward a connected first or second OLT after a wait time period designated by the connected first or second OLT; the first communication device of the first packet communication network sends a first frame for measuring communication time period, to the second communication device of the second packet communication network through the first PON, and sends a second frame for measuring communication time period, to the second communication device through the second PON; and the second communication device calculates a difference of communication time period between the received first and second frames, and instructs the first or second OLT of the first or second PON, for correcting a wait time period which is set to the one or plural ONUs connected to the first or second OLT, based on the difference between communication time periods. | 03-22-2012 |
20120127877 | PACKET TRANSFER DEVICE AND PACKET TRANSFER METHOD - Packet transfer device and method have both a processing procedure for uninterruptible-switching desiring packets and a processing procedure for low-delay desiring packets, and process each user packet according to a desired one of the processing procedures. The uninterruptible-switching desiring packets are set to be in phase by a delay unit and written into an uninterruptible-switching memory. The low-delay desiring packets are written into a low-delay memory without passing trough the delay unit, that is, without being delayed. A read-out controller reads out a packet from the uninterruptible-switching memory. When the read-out packet is an uninterruptible-switching desiring packet, the packet is directly output, and when the read-out packet is a low-delay desiring packet, the packet is discarded, and a low-delay desiring packet is read out from the low-delay memory and output. | 05-24-2012 |
20120224488 | METHOD OF CONNECTIVITY MONITORING BY SUBSCRIBER LINE TERMINATING APPARATUS - A method carrying out connectivity monitoring of an entire network by: transmitting a CCM frame in which the transmission source is set to a multicast MAC address, from a higher level side (center side) terminating device to a plurality of lower level side (base point side) terminating devices; transmitting a CCM frame in which a unicast MAC address is set, from the lower level side terminating devices to the higher level side terminating device; transmitting a CCM frame in which a multicast MAC address is set, from a controller to the higher level side terminating device or the lower level side terminating devices; and transmitting a CCM frame in which a unicast MAC address is set, from the higher level side terminating device or the lower level side terminating devices to the controller. | 09-06-2012 |
20130028112 | INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE - For a user signal (signal requesting for provision of services) input to a signal transport network, header information for transmission in the signal transport network is given at a portal edge of the signal transport network on the user side. The information given at this time includes a time stamp indicating the time of receiving the user signal by the edge. In a server on the service provider side, the time stamp is referred to, and services are provided for each user. Specifically, a response process schedule for each user is produced from the time stamp, and waiting time is reduced and a priority process is performed in accordance with the time of issuing the request by the user. | 01-31-2013 |
20130329547 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - Provided is a communication device including a plurality of physical ports, the communication device holding information for associating each of at least one logical port and at least two physical ports, the communication device being configured to: identify, when any one of the plurality of physical ports receives data including user data, one of the at least one logical port as an output destination of the data based on destination information included in the received data; select, based on the data, one of the at least two physical ports associated with the identified logical port as an destination of the data; generate coupling check data relating to one of the plurality of physical ports; transmit the coupling check data from the one of the plurality of physical ports; and transmit data including the user data from the physical port selected by a first processing unit as the output destination. | 12-12-2013 |
20140036923 | Packet Transfer Apparatus - A packet transfer apparatus connects two networks of different protocols. The packet transfer apparatus, connected to a first communication network and a second communication network, performs the steps of: storing first destination correspondence information; receiving a packet of the first communication protocol; based on the first destination correspondence information, determining destination information of a packet of the second communication protocol corresponding to destination information of the received packet of the first communication protocol; generating the header of the packet of the second communication protocol, based on the determined destination information of the packet of the second communication protocol; converting the received one or more packets of the first communication protocol into one or more packets of the third communication protocol; and adding the generated header of the packet of the second communication protocol to the packets of the third communication protocol. | 02-06-2014 |